Press Review
The adoption of the draft organic law on the functioning and the terms of reference of the Independent Electoral Commission, CEI in French acronym, and the provincial tour by the Vice-President in charge of the political…
Press Review
The Vice-President Azarias Ruberwa's provincial tour and the detainees' escape in the Buluwo prison, Katanga province, are the major headlines in today's local papers in Kinshasa. The Vice-President in charge of the Political…
Press Review DRC
The activities of the UN Mission in the DR Congo (MONUC), the Vice President In Charge Of The Commission On Political, Defence and Security Matters' current mission to the country's interior, as well as the recent…
Press Review
Today's local papers devote their major headlines to the tour of DRC provinces by Vice-president Azarias Ruberwa within the framework of the DRC reunification process. Some papers analyze the presidential decrees appointing…
Press Review
Today's local papers mainly focus on the adoption of government programme by the Parliament. Some papers comment on the Paris meeting of the Donors' consultative group for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the end of…
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The Special Representative of the United Nations for the DRC and MONUC Force Commander's activities, MONUC's repatriation operations of foreign armed groups in DRC, the commemoration of the first anniversary of the All…
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Today's local press in Kinshasa devotes its comments to the Sunday incidents in Lubumbashi, Katanga province, between the militants of two political parties; the political activities conducted by the leader of the Union for…
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Today's Congolese press focuses on the draft law relating to the political parties, the legal rules and regulations on the police and the army forces adopted Monday by the extraordinary meeting of the transitional government…
MONUC Denounces Events in Mbandaka
Kinshasa, 5 April 2010 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for DRC, Alan Doss expressed his deep concern about the situation prevailing in Mbandaka, Equateur province, attacked by a rebel group on 4 April…
MONUC supports operations to restore order and State authority in Equateur
On Tuesday 15 December, MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye was in Dongo, Equateur where he led an assessment mission comprising both military and civilian staff. On the same day, the first military elements of MONUC…
DSRSG Ross Mountain leaves DRC, ends 36-year career with the United Nations
Kinshasa, 2 November 2009 - Ross Mountain, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo will leave the UN mission on November 6th 2009, after five years in this position. As…
A high ranking FDLR officer and his troops choose DDRRR
MONUC Information Note Kinshasa, 30 March 2009: Since the end of the joint DRC / Rwanda military operation, MONUC has continued its sensitization efforts for the combatants of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of…